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Battle Shapes up Over Video Cameras in Airline Cockpits
The many entities involved are on the move to revisit this debate. (www.wsj.com) עוד...
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Isn't it time that commercial jets also had cameras located so that the pilots can view critical areas such as the engines, rudder, elevators, landing gear, etc. I've read of accidents caused by the wrong engine being shut down, or icing where the crew couldn't see it, and incidents where aircraft have had to make low passes to allow an observer to try to inspect the condition of the undercarriage.
Just have a camera in the cockpit showing the rest of the crew or passengers whats going on. Nothing wrong with privacy.
It will come to pass if for no other reason than for the person controlling the airplane on the ground to "see" what is going on up there. In that case they'd be mandatory.
Now, back to today's real life. Cameras can be an enhancement. Not just in the cockpit but in many other areas of the aircraft as Colin Seftel stated below. I might add baggage holds as another area. Videos can also be used in training to see how to do it right as well as wrong.
Now, back to today's real life. Cameras can be an enhancement. Not just in the cockpit but in many other areas of the aircraft as Colin Seftel stated below. I might add baggage holds as another area. Videos can also be used in training to see how to do it right as well as wrong.
We are about 2 weeks away from the crash of AA 191 in 1979 at ORD. If he had've had something on the outside showing him how bad things really were and that he had truly LOST an engine, he'd have probably trashed the checklist and kept it flying. As it was, he throttled back per the list and that's when he went down.
Interesting that that airplane and others then had cockpit cameras. The view from between the pilots out the front window was one of the selections that the stews could select to show on the bulkhead TVs. I believe comm1 or comm2 was also a selection on the armrest audio. If you got things right, it was like riding jumpseat. Besides "hold what ya got," I think that is one of the many things that accident changed.
Best I remember, and that has been almost 36 years ago. All he knew was that he had lost an engine, with no idea that it was that bad. For losing an engine the checklist was correct but for the different aero on an engine being completely GONE, it was a death knell.
Yes, he had only seconds to link the left roll with the pitch up and speed loss and to put the nose back down.
Yeah, chances are for a regular EO, he wouldn't have even had to go to the checklist. Don't know if he could have done any different with a camera showing it. That's one of them Oh S%^& moments. Sad part is, as it was a takeoff, cabin crew probably still had the Wi-Fi on the front and everybody got to see the ground coming up. We'll never know and anything on flight characteristics is all speculation. Hindsight is 20-20. They crashed. Everybody died and it was mx's fault, with Airline and Boeing giving tacit approval.
I said Boeing out of habit. This still very much in MD days, and while MD would not recommend that engine/pylon change, they didn't report it to the FAA either.
